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Aidan McAnespie (1965 – 21 February 1988) was an Irish nationalist activist and Sinn Féin election worker who was shot dead by a British soldier at the Aughnacloy, County Tyrone border checkpoint in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. ==Death== McAnespie, a member of Aghaloo O'Neills Gaelic football club, was travelling to a match when he was killed by a gunshot wound to the back. He had just walked past a British Army checkpoint. The British Army said that McAnespie had been hit when the weapon had discharged accidentally as a soldier was moving the gun with wet hands. Forensic evidence suggested that the fatal shot was one of three that had ricocheted off the road two metres behind McAnespie.〔〔 Charges were initially brought against Grenadier Guard Jonathan Holden for manslaughter but were dropped prior to prosecution.〔 He was fined for negligent discharge of the weapon and in 1990 was given a medical discharge. McAnespie was an election worker for Sinn Féin, but both the Provisional Irish Republican Army and his priest said that he was not involved in paramilitary activity.〔(Newspaper story about McAnespie's death ), news.google.com; accessed 23 October 2015.〕 He had previously said that he had been threatened by the security forces, and, according to his sister, soldiers had threatened to kill him on several occasions. McAnespie's family allege a cover-up by the British government and question the likelihood of accidental discharge killing their son from a distance of 300 metres. His father, in an article in the ''Observer Magazine'', claimed that a soldier had stopped him some fifteen months before the shooting and told him, "I've a bullet here in the gun for your son Aidan". 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aidan McAnespie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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